The bright ring around the sun is called the halo. A halo can be found around any object with light like the moon or sun.
There are in fact several types of halo phenomena that can occur around the sun - and indeed around the moon, or even car headlights or street lamps.
The most common is the 22-degrees halo, which resembles a large circle around the sun showing rainbow colours. Also familiar may be sundogs, or parhelia, which appear as two bright spots of light each side of the sun. Both of these usually form at a similar distance from the sun, which can be approximated as one handspan with your arm stretched away from you.
Other halos include the strikingly bright and colourful circumzenithal arc, which forms directly overhead and displays the clearest colours of any halo, and the parhelic circle, which appears as a white circle all around the sky, parallel to the horizon and level with the sun.
These phenomena form when sunlight passes through ice crystals in the atmosphere, and refracts to split up the colours, or when light bounces off the ice crystals and is reflected. These ice crystals could be in high-atmosphere clouds like cirrus clouds, or they could be free-floating at ground level, when they are known as diamond dust.
Several incredible displays of many halos appearing at once have been seen for centuries, inspiring works of art, and they are great fun to look for when you're outside. Similar effects can form in water droplets in clouds, like iridescence.
== The Halo of Gas Surrounding the Sun It is called the Corona and can only be seen during solar eclipses
sun dog
Called a halo. Caused by scattering of the sun's light rays by tiny particles (about the same size as the light wavelength) in the upper atmosphere of the earth.
They are just called halos, though additional and less common features have other names.
The halo around the Sun during a total solar eclipse is called the corona.
It is called the solar prominces
There is no ring around the sun.
Corona
The Corona
When there is a total solar eclipse the rim around the outside is called the corona. Smaller arc shapes at the surface are known as solar prominences.
Corona
The thin red line around the sun during an eclipse is called a chromosphere.
This type of eclipse is called an "annular eclipse" and the ring is an "annulus".
The red ring that is visible around the darkened disk of the Moon during a total solar eclipse is called the solar corona. It is the outermost layer of the Sun's atmosphere, composed of superheated plasma. The corona is usually invisible due to the overwhelming brightness of the Sun, but during a total solar eclipse, it becomes visible as a beautiful halo of red or white light.
When there is a total solar eclipse the rim around the outside is called the corona. Smaller arc shapes at the surface are known as solar prominences.
Corona
The white halo that can be seen during the Solar Eclipse is the Sun's Corona.
The thin red line around the sun during an eclipse is called a chromosphere.
The solar corona, or upper atmosphere, is only visible during a solar eclipse.
This type of eclipse is called an "annular eclipse" and the ring is an "annulus".
The red ring that is visible around the darkened disk of the Moon during a total solar eclipse is called the solar corona. It is the outermost layer of the Sun's atmosphere, composed of superheated plasma. The corona is usually invisible due to the overwhelming brightness of the Sun, but during a total solar eclipse, it becomes visible as a beautiful halo of red or white light.
It would during a solar eclipse, but probably not during a lunar eclipse.
The light around the moon is called the corona. It is the outermost portion of the sun's atmosphere. The corona is always present, but except during an eclipse it is hidden by the glare from the rest of the sun.
The sun is hidden during a solar eclipse
What you photo during a solar eclipse is the solar rings showing around the moon. It is possible to photo them but you need to put a dark lense on the front of the camera and do not look at the screen directly.
During a solar eclipse, the shadow of the MOON falls on the EARTH.